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 394 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 265 -JULY 3, 1945 [59 STAT. War may deem necessary, at rates of pay to be fixed by him not to exceed $25 a day for not exceeding fifty days each and necessary traveling expenses; purchase of special apparatus and appliances, repairs, and replacements of same used in connection with special Printing plants. scientific medical and meteorological research in the Air Corps; for maintenance and operation of such Air Corps printing plants outside of the District of Columbia as may be authorized in accordance with law; for publications, station libraries, special furniture, supplies and equipment for offices, shops, and laboratories; for special services, ayment of cla8ms. including the salvaging of wrecked aircraft; for payment of claims 31 U. S. C., Supp. resulting from the operation of aircraft, under the provisions of the Iv,§ 2i-2bnotes, Act of July 3, 1943 (31 U. S. C . 223b); $100. Ante, p. 225. MEDIcAL DEPARTMENT MEDICAL AND HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT supplie. For the manufacture and purchase of medical and hospital supplies for military posts, camps, hospitals, hospital ships and transports, and supplies required for mosquito destruction in and about military posts in the Canal Zone; for operation of the Army Medical Library and Museum under the direct supervision of the Surgeon General; for the purchase of veterinary supplies and hire of veterinary sur- geons; for expenses of medical supply depots and maintenance of fCarnd t reatment branch depots; for medical care and treatment of patients when entitled thereto by law, regulation, or contract, including their care, treatment and subsistence in private hospitals, whether on duty or on furlough or on leave of absence except when elective medical treat- ment has been obtained by such personnel in civilian hospitals or from civilian physicians or dentists; for medical care and treatment of authorized personnel of any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States when such care and treatment cannot be obtained from medical units of their own Epidemic and con- country; for the proper care and treatment of epidemic and con- tagious diseases in the Army or at military posts or stations, includ- ing measures to prevent the spread thereof, and the payment of reasonable damages, not otherwise provided for, for bedding and insane Filipno sol clothing injured or destroyed in such prevention; for the care of insane Filipino soldiers in conformity with the Act of Congress 35 tat. 122. approved May 11, 1908 (24 U. S . C . 198); for the pay of male and otheriiank and female nurses, not including the Army Nurse Corps, and of cooks and other civilians employed for the proper care of patients, under such regulations fixing their number, qualifications, assignments, pay, and allowances as shall have been or shall be prescribed by the iiteirnes. s Secretary of War; for the pay of internes; for the pay of civilian Civa i ph physicians employed to examine physically applicants for enlistment and enlisted men and to render other professional services from time to time under proper authority; for the pay of other employees of the Medical Department; for the payment of express companies and local transfers employed directly by the Medical Department for the trans- portation of medical and hospital supplies, including bidders' Army and Navy samples and water for analysis; for the supply of Army and Navy arik ' p Hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas; for advertising, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses of the Medical Department; $329,000,000. __^ _

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